This song … It’s always been not quite right, something missing for it to be great. But it’s good, it’s really good.

• Cirrus – Back On A Mission

• Dave Brubeck – Take Five

• Up ‘N Da Club – 2nd II None Feat. Dj Quik & AMG

• Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy

• Kerri Chandler – Mommy What’s A Record

This is one of those House tracks that sound like many others but still hit the spot.

• Hit Makers – Set Me Free (Milk & Sugar Remix)

• Dusty Springfield – Spooky

Maybe this should be on Too Good Monday …

• Dori Hartley – Nobody Loves Me But You

Very simple song but it’s not missing anything.

• TC – Last Frontier

Dr. Dre/Mark Batson production. Play on good speakers and hear the bass.

• Jay-Z – Lost One

• Joy Division – Isolation

I suppose you could call it irony, that this song is blocked in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria, not because of the government of those countries, but because American record label have some sort of issue with it.

• Instant Funk – Bodyshine

“The band’s name was derived from Dexedrine, a brand of dextroamphetamine used as a recreational drug among Northern soul fans to give them energy to dance all night.”

• Jools Holland & His Rhythm and Blues Orchestra with Dexys – Come On Eileen

Written by Harry Wayne Casey (aka K.C.)

• George McCrae – Rock Your Baby

• Wu-Tang Clan – C.R.E.A.M.

“One of Factory’s mid-eighties cult sellers, Kalima. Remember them? Sade two years too early, progressive Latin American jazz from a Hulme squat.”

• Kalima – Smiling Hour

“Twice a year, on New Year’s Eve and the May birthday bash, there was no place on earth like the Hacienda. That’s a fact. Stone cold fact.

Stand-out tune was Lulu’s ‘Shout’ on those party nights, hardly hip but these were the days of the war (against all white New Romantic shite) and we did have rationing.” — Tony Wilson

• Lulu’s — Shout